All Episodes

193. TIFF: Why Stuffed, the taxidermy romance starring Jodie Comer and Harry Melling, needed to be a musical

192. How do you tell a story about healing from shared trauma when the characters can't talk about it?

191. Why great TV asks for more than a binge

190. Oslo, August 31st: Beginning and Ending (Deep Focus preview)

189. Berlinale: a Sámi musical, a queer Black South African film, and an 1800s queer period drama

188. My Berlinale talk: Why the first conversation about a film shouldn't be the last

187. Sound of Falling + Interview with Mascha Schilinski

186. Heated Rivalry: the queer Canadian hockey romance taking the internet by storm

185. Chloé Zhao's Hamnet with Angelo Muredda

184. What Happens When You Apply 'Yes, And' to Film Discussions

183. The Choral (TIFF 2025) with Ralph Fiennes: When queer characters don't make a queer film

182. Couture (with Angelina Jolie) and Alice Winocour's traumatized bodies (TIFF 2025)

181. Between Dreams and Hope and queer survival (TIFF 2025)

180. Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value (TIFF 2025)

179. What if we told stories about women beyond their love lives?

178. What happened when Hazel trusted my film curation

177. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh) with Lindsay Pugh (10th anniversary)

176. Materialists (dir. Celine Song)

175. How three very different films ended up in conversation

174. Mission: Impossible (1996) with Angelo Muredda

173. Beginnings and Endings: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

172. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (dir. Laura Piani)

171. Cannes 2025: Navigating the festival beyond the Competition

170. Why is it so hard to see African films?

169. The Shrouds (dir. David Cronenberg) with Angelo Muredda

168. The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, 2025)

167. We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011) — the best pope movie

166. Introducing...one of the most important films of this decade

165. Misericordia (directed by Alain Guiraudie) and what the opening scene can teach us

164. Black Bag directed by Steven Soderbergh: finally, a fun thriller for grownups

163. Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter + Crossing Delancey - from flop to hit (feat. Lindsay Pugh)

162. The best films of 2025 (feat. C.J. Prince)

161. Beyond the Oscars: Your gateway to world cinema (feat. C.J. Prince)

160. How the Oscars impact what international movies you hear about (feat. C.J. Prince)

159. Macbeth with David Tennant + why I recommend recorded Shakespeare productions

158. 3 films to watch by Tunisian women directors

157. myfrenchfilmfestival: A Real Job, No Love Lost, Through The Night

156. Three myths about Mike Leigh's process debunked

155. Halina Reijn's Babygirl with Lindsay Pugh

154. Three key ingredients to a great year of movies

153. Maura Delpero's Vermiglio: A film about systems of knowledge in rural Italy at the end of WWII

152. 3 Reasons You Need A Curated Watchlist for 2025

151. Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name

150. How I got interested in Indigenous films from Australia feat. Ivan Sen's Limbo

149. The key to great character dramas + The Girl with the Needle (feat. Magnus von Horn)

148. How I almost missed the best film of the 2010s...and what I learned.

147. Why is it so hard to see the new Cillian Murphy movie?

146. Small Things Like These: the Cillian Murphy drama you don't want to miss

145. From the Archive: Steve McQueen's Small Axe

TIFF 24 #10: Marianne Elliott on The Salt Path and directing for stage vs. screen

144. We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011) - Alt programming for Conclave

TIFF 2024 #9: Brady Corbet's The Brutalist with Angelo Muredda

TIFF 24 #8: Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical The End with Angelo Muredda

143. The Old Man and the Land and the line between cinema and radio play

TIFF 24 #7: Luca Guadagnino's Queer with Angelo Muredda

TIFF 24 #6: Ralph Fiennes x 2: The Return and Conclave

TIFF 24 #5: Bicultural daughters and their absent fathers: My Father's Daughter, Winter in Sokcho, and A Missing Part

TIFF24 #4: British social realism - Andrea Arnold's Bird and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths

TIFF 24 #3: Sports movies for people who don't like sports movies

TIFF 24 #2: Palestinian films: No Other Land, To a Land Unknown, Happy Holidays, and From Ground Zero

TIFF24 1: Why this season is for you, even if you aren't attending the festival

142. Good One (feat. India Donaldson): A teenager heads into the woods with her divorced dad

141. My Lady Jane: An addictive, swashbuckling, Tudor-era romance

140. Mapantsula (1988) with director Oliver Schmitz

Introducing...Reel Ruminators: A Movie-of-the-Month Discussion Club

139. Green Border with Agnieszka Holland

138. Ghostlight: An interview with Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson

137. Luca Guadagnino's Challengers with Andrew Kendall

Nowhere Special with James Norton and Uberto Pasolini

Promising Young Woman + The Assistant: Rape culture on film in 2020 (Redux)

Creative Nonfiction #5: Penny Lane on Confessions of a Good Samaritan and making a self-portrait

Creative Nonfiction #4: Sam Green on 32 Sounds and live documentary

Creative Nonfiction #3: Philippe Falardeau on Lac-Mégantic: This Is Not An Accident and rethinking the true crime doc

Creative Nonfiction #2: Sophie Fiennes on Four Quartets and documenting live theatre

Creative Nonfiction #1: An introduction

134: Justine Triet's Women on the Verge: In Bed With Victoria and Sibyl

133: Berlinale 2023: Here, Delegation, The Teachers' Lounge, Le Paradis, and more

Sundance 2023 #7: Best of the fest + documentaries Fantastic Machine, Is There Anybody Out There, The Stroll, and more

Sundance 2023 #6: Passages, You Hurt My Feelings, Rotting in the Sun, A Little Prayer, and more.

Sundance 2023 #5: Sometimes I Think About Dying, Fremont, Eileen, Fairyland, and more

Sundance 2023 #4: Indigenous Films, from Bad Press to Twice Colonized to Murder in Big Horn and beyond.

Sundance 2023 #3: Slow, Fancy Dance, Scrapper, A Still Small Voice, and other early highlights

Sundance 2023 #2: The Spotlight Program and The Eight Mountains

Sundance 2023 #1: What we're looking forward to at the festival

132: Women Talking by Sarah Polley

131: Remembering Jeff Barnaby

130: Jerzy Skolimowski's Eo (Excerpt)

Highlights from the fall film film festivals (Excerpt)

Bonus 31: My Small Land

We're back! Coming soon on the podcast

5. Women at Cannes 2022

4. Naomi Kawase at Cannes

3. Céline Sciamma at Cannes

2. Kelly Reichardt at Cannes 2022

1. A brief history of women directors at the Cannes Film Festival

Introducing our new Women at Cannes season

B29: Where is COVID in the movies?

128: Petite Maman and Céline Sciamma's temporary utopias

B28: Portraits of female artists: Part 2 (Excerpt)

127: Fabian: Going to the Dogs and the rise of totalitarianism

126: Run Woman Run: An Indigenous coming of age after 30 film

B27: Empathy on film with Dr. Brett Pardy

B26: Benedict Cumberbatch's best, worst, and poshest performances (Excerpt)

125: Berlinale 2022

B25: This is Going to Hurt and physician mental health

Announcing the Joachim Trier Challenge

124: Olivia Vinall on performing Shakespeare

B24: Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (Excerpt)

123: Sundance 2022: Creative Nonfiction

B23: Sundance 2022: Fiction films (Excerpt)

122: Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World

B22: Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth (Excerpt)

121: Ninjababy & Obvious Child: Unwanted pregnancies in romantic comedies

B21: The Best Films of 2021

120: David Gulpilil: Remembering his work in Charlie's Country and beyond

B20: Belfast and the self-mythologising of Kenneth Branagh (Excerpt)

119: Mike Leigh's Naked

B19: Who is the poshest actor in Britain

118: The Souvenir Part I and II

Announcement: The Seventh Circle returns

B18: Titane (excerpt)

117: The North Water

B17: Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle in The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre (Excerpt)

Announcement on Our New Podcast Format

B16: Watching Lena Dunham's Girls in 2021 (Excerpt)

115: Revisiting The English Patient 25 years later

114: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come and Bergman Island

113: About Time and I'm Your Man: Sci-fi love stories

112: Raw and Thelma: Modern female monsters

110: Weekend and End of the Century: Brief encounters

108: The Deep Blue Seas redux

107: Another Round and Oslo, August 31st: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction Redux

105: Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film

103: Pascal Plante's films: Fake Tattoos and Nadia Butterfly

101. Magnus von Horn's Films: The Here After and Sweat

100: Films for the future

99: Creative Nonfiction with Penny Lane and Carol Nguyen

What is creative nonfiction?

94. HBO's Looking

91. AIDS on Film, featuring It's a Sin

Introducing the Seventh Row Premium Podcast

90: A Chantal Akerman Mother's Day: Jeanne Dielman and Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

SR EP82: Genocide on Film: Quo Vadis, Aida and Our Lady of the Nile

81: In Their Own Words: Fiction Directors

71. The Crown: Season Four, Starring Josh O'Connor

68. Hillbilly Elegy and Down to The Bone: Portraits of Mothers Struggling With Addiction

SR EP67: Frederick Wiseman's Ex Libris & City Hall

66. Francis Lee's Gods Own Country and Ammonite

64: Lockdown Film School with Alice Winocour

56: Justine Triet's Women on the Verge: In Bed With Victoria and Sibyl

7R EP52: First Cow & Wendy and Lucy

Roads to Nowhere ebook Preview

46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau

42. Normal People & On Chesil Beach

40: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece: Dead mothers

7R EP37: Subverting the Western Featuring Meek's Cutoff

35. The Invisible Man (Leigh Wannell) and Unsane (Steven Soderbergh) and the stalker thriller

On Film Criticism with Lindsay Pugh

7R EP33: Comparing Emma Adaptations

32. Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach) and Peterloo (Mike Leigh): Films about improving the lives of the working class

30: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

7R EP25: Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy and Night Moves

22: The King

21: Feminist Horror

14: The Souvenir

13: Mouthpiece

11: Peterloo

9: Canada's Top Ten 2018, part 2

8: Canada's Top Ten 2018, part 1

7: Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete

2: Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here

1: Leave No Trace